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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Only if they make it past the electrified fence. And minefield. And machine gun nests.
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I remember fellow Americans speaking approvingly of Singapore in the 90's. "Ah, now that's the way a country should be run" they seemed to to be implying.
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Since the MPAA got rid of the X rating, I'm glad we have this. Now the phrase "Triple X" won't become obsolete.
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
I haven't looked at Minus yet, but is the "but, but ... Dropbox!" argument going to be brought up every time some form of online storage is advertised? I, perosnally, decided Dropbox was not the right solution for me at this time. I don't n
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The world, chico, and everything in it.
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"remember that vast swaths of land in Central Asia, Siberia, Canada, Alaska, Australia and Antartica are virtually uninhabited: we don't even need to go the moon or Mars or something to find space for humans." Uninhabited for a very good re
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
It's an opportunity for HN'ers to hold forth on programming.
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"Your comment is a classic instance of people on a forum rushing to judgment based on incomplete information. It's isomorphic to the sort of thing one sees on reddit, except that it's about startups rather than the federal government or int
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Earth to asteroid: Negative Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Hilarious! Anyone read the Wikipedia article about "The Junction Boys", a college football team that Bear Bryant took to the town of Junction, Texas in the middle of summer? He made them do grueling practice in the blazing heat, and withhel
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
When I see "ad hominem" hauled out on HN, I always think of the following from Daniel Davies: "There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem". There is,
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CS majors are going to be bookkeepers, not mathematicians.
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I thought this might be interesting, John Cassisy at the New Yorker claims: "One more cautionary note: Don’t take too seriously the headlines you will see about the market valuing LinkedIn at $8-9 billion. Using the oldest I.P.O. trick in
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Acting like a college admissions board, instead of seeking out and meeting entrepreneurs year round?
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by sampsonjs 15y ago
Lisp and Haskell programmers would both worship the lambda. Instead of making the sign of the cross they would draw the sign of the lambda across their chest to show reverence..
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Atlas Shrugged producer uses feedback on early,incomplete release to pivot(avclub.com)
3 points by sampsonjs 15y ago|0 comments
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Uh, because the '10 times more productive programmer' is folklore, at best? It may be true, but there's not much hard empiricism behind the claim. See https://www.readability.com/articles/5egv0hme?legacy_bookmar... . Cook admits it's hard
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Why Nintendo isn't making a phone(cnn.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 16y ago|0 comments
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I know EDW is a legend in CS, but that doesn't make everything he wrote insightful. If you thought this was a long-winded, hard-to-read, pointless rant, let me assure all his essays in his later years(i.e. since he took up residence at UT A
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Resort 2 Kindness: Record acts of kindness for charity(resort2kindness.com)
1 points by sampsonjs 16y ago|0 comments